No state or society can claim to have established human rights once and for all.
AI WEIWEII spent a lot of time standing on street corners [of New York City] talking to local residents. I spent time in bookstores and galleries. But most of the time, I really did not have much to do.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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I don’t think my father had a direct influence on me, but I do think, more or less, I was influenced by his independent individualism.
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For years, I refused to go to any openings, not even my own.
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I think you can give meaning to any condition; you can be poor or unsuccessful or be so-called successful. But I don’t think that it would give an individual human being a better condition.
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I’m doing quite a few things now. In one day, I will go to Kassel, Germany, for a documentary project I’ve been preparing for half a year.
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I don’t believe in a sense of home.
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The freedom of speech is an important yardstick for a society’s level of civilization.
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The Internet is uncontrollable. And if the Internet is uncontrollable, freedom will win. It’s as simple as that.
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That’s why the country can’t face up to open competition – unless it resorts to measures like North Korea.
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We never really see the global situation as a total situation. Today’s political leaders are still lacking of the vision.
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And the kind of condition he had when he was in this society – the kind of mistreatment society gave him.
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Even today the borders they’re seeing the physical borders are very different from the political borders. Because all those powers are so connected, and you cannot even see whose interest in what move.
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I don’t think I was very structured in that society and I don’t really believe in personal success, which most Americans believe in.
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Politics is like air and water. And you know if there is bad politics. Everyone is polluted. Everyone is unhealthy. See the people walking on the street: how they act.
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China restricts the society’s freedom of speech. The Communist Party imposes these limits because it lacks confidence towards the future and has no ideals.
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People have a tendency to become elite rather than to care about the general conditions of the society, which makes me sick. It’s an unbearable condition.
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